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H L ANGE BABY CARRIAGE.

N0. 508,72 Patented Nov, 14, 1893.

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UNITED STATES HINRICH LANGE,

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OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY MCDONALD, OF SAME PLACE.

BABY-CARRIAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,726, dated November 14, 1893.

Application filed February-9, 1893. Serial No. 461,640. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HINRIOH LANGE, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby-Carriages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters. of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to enable the capacity of a baby carriage to be increased beyond that of the body portion thereof, so that, for example, a mother with two children may set or lay one of the children in the body,'and be prepared to carry the other child in the carriage without disturbing the first child.

Other objects will be given in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved baby carriage and in the arrangements and combinations of parts, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a baby carriage having my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation ofa folding seat adapted to slide beneath the body of the carriage, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of said seat from the front, certain supporting rods being in transverse section taken on line cc.

In said drawings, 0, indicates a baby-carriage body having underneath slideways b, b, to receive a folding chair 0. Said chair is adapted to be unfolded and stand behind the carriage body in line therewith and to receive a child or occupant. When folded it is adapted to slide in said slideways and lie beneath the body where it will be out of the way and will not interfere with theordinary use of the carriage. Of said chair, (1, d, are horizontal rods or bars lying in the ways I), b, and

adapted to be held therein with security in any ordinary or appropriate manner, both when the chair is in its folded and unfolded positions. The chair consists of vertically or approximately vertically arranged legs or supports 6 and f. the former being extended to a sufficient height to receive the back piece, 0, Fig. 3, the said vertical legs or supports being parallel with one another and being hinged or pivotaily connected, at the lower ends, to the sliding rods or bars cl, as at 2', z, and above, to horizontal connecting parts g and g, the former serving as arm pieces or lateral guards for the child and the latter as the seat. Suitable braces, It, may be employed to hold the chair in its open position, and a foot support, Z, may be hinged to the chair so as to fold therewith. The chair is sufficiently narrow in width to pass between the uprights, h, which carry the handle 72/ of the carriage, so that said chair may be drawn back sufficiently to allow the child to sit comfortably behind the rear-board a of the body.

In closing the device, the chair being open, or in its operative position behind the body of the carriage, the hooked or catching brace Z0 is raised from its bracing position, as incated in Fig. 2, and the hinged parts are turned on their pivots as is also indicated, in broken outline, in Fig. 2, and brought together so that they may, together, he pushed beneath the body of the carriage.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new isl. The combination with the baby carriage body, having underneath slideways, of a folding seat adapted to slide in said slideways and to be drawn out and opened up to receive a child, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the vehicle body at, having ways 11, bars d, d carrying chairs adapted to slide in said ways when folded and to be opened up to receive an occupant,

substantially as set forth.

3. In combination, the vehicle body a, ways 6, bars (Liege e, f, hinged to said bars, d,oonnecting seat, g, and arms 9, 9, all arranged and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4 r V t t 4. The improved baby-carriage herein de- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I scribed having in combination therewith, a have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of body a, uprights 72, h, and handle h, at the rear January, 1893.

thereof, and a folding chair carried on slid- HINRIGII LANGE. 5 ing supports and adapted to be opened or un- Witnesses:

folded and stand between said uprights snb- CHARLES H. PELL,

stantially as set forth. HENRY MCDONALD. 

